Begginer needs help with brakes please!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Hi. This is my first post on this forum and im hoping somebody can answer my question.

I have bought a Kinroad xt 125 easy rider (Chinese import) and before you all shoot me down in flames for buying a chinese bike, I know now how crap they are but im stuck with it for now.

Well my prob is this....I took it for a service which went fine, had the usual things done to it, new oil, sparks and everything tightened up and checked. After my first journey after picking it up i pulled up at my destination and whilst positioning it to park the front wheel jammed. So i checked it and one of the 6 bolts that hold the brake disc on had unscrewed itself and was stopping the wheel turning every time it reached the housing of the brake calipers (yeah lucky i wasnt going 50mph)

Ever since that though the calipers rub against the disc at a certain point of the wheel, much like the disc has warped or maybe the caliper housing has been moved. It has gradually been getting much worse though and it feels like the brakes are just tightening up.

If anybody has got any advice on what i could do next or any tips then i will be really REALLY gratefull.

Thanks everyone

Chris

[Korben]

Hi Chris

Drop into the Newbie section and say hello mate.

Sounds like your discs are warped and you may have other problems as well. I would recommend you take it to a engineer if you are not too sure how to fix. It's your brakes... They are pretty important!!

[truxx]

1st.

Jack the bike up so the front wheel is off the floor.

Then spin the wheel and you'll see what's jamming up.

2nd.

Undo ALL the major bolts then put them back in with locktite.(essential)

3rd.

Sell the bike as soon as possible,for whatever amount you can get for it,and never look back.

4th.

Give yourself a real good kicking for buying a chinese bike!

Sorted.

[Guest]

um if this has happened after you have taken it for a service

Take it back to them and ask them to rectify it or at least look into it ..

Do not ride it unless you can keep the front wheel off the ground for prelonged period of times ( im joking) but not about the do not ride it part

[Bill_on_a_bike]

Whatever happens, get rid of this bike. If the bolt holding a caliper on will unscrew itself, what's the one holding the cylinder head down going to be like? And do you want to find out. Frankly, i'd feel guilty selling such a death trap but i guess you got to. Don't expect much for it though, even in good nick these bikes depreciate like hell.

[rollazuki]

To apply a little common sense to this thread, any of you owned a chinese bike?

I bought a Jialing125 at auction, just wanted a runner/hack for winter so I didnt have to polish the nitro bottle on the bandit quite so often.

Its a chinese version of the early Honda XL125.

It was fantastic.

It was run to death(including a 13.8bhp dyno run!!), sold to a mate, who sold it to another mate, then another.

It was like a pool bike, whoever needed a hack to run to work seemed to buy it and run round until another mate needed it more.

I maintained it(a bit), and once decided to have the camcover off to check internals.

To my surprise, the chinese had improved the Honda design.

The original had the usual cam that ran in the head, eventually eating the ally away, and thats the end of that.

The cheap ass bag 'o' poo Jialing had a hardened steel insert, and a roller bearing in its place!!!

I loved that bike, it never let me down, and I dont remember it ever actually using any petrol.

So a bolt has come loose on your chinese bike, so what, fix it, ya recon bolts never came loose on jap bikes? Its a bike, China and korea could well soon become the new Japan, who the heck are we gonna slag off then? Most Suzuki engines are now assembled in korea, I dunno about the rest of them, so there ya go, my 20 cents worth. Enjoy the bike, no reason not to.

Rolla

[pumilio]

I think what Rollazuki meant to say was: "Bring me your bike and I will fix it"!

[Guest]

where abouts are you??

I also was the proud owner of said Jailing beast....a proper hoot tbh and never let me down either....i fitted a mx style load pipe lol...hence the huge 1.3 bhp power gain lol

[truxx]

There is some of these chinese bikes which are built slightly better than others.

Just to add.I have owned 2 chinese bikes.One off road style gy125.And one cruiser thing.

The cruiser was horrible to ride,and constantly had bits snapping,and the gy's engine eat it's self up within 600 miles (and i did run it in properly),but that wasn't before the spokes snapped on the rear wheel (which collapsed on me while riding),the engine mounting bolts snapped while riding.There is a LOT MORE but i cant remember it all now.And thenn there was the electrics which were unbelievable.

One day i'm sure these chinese bikes will built to jap spec,but in the meantime they are simply dangerous.

Korean hyosung are a different ball game,nothing like the chinese.

IMO the hyosung's build quality are on par with the jap stuff now.I would own another one of them anyday.

[Korben]

Never got up close to a Hyosung yet, but I keep seeing more and more of them around.

I guess if they prove to be reliable in 10 years like they are now, they could make a good name for themselves.

[tony-1977]

To apply a little common sense to this thread, any of you owned a chinese bike?

I bought a Jialing125 at auction, just wanted a runner/hack for winter so I didnt have to polish the nitro bottle on the bandit quite so often.

Its a chinese version of the early Honda XL125.

It was fantastic.

It was run to death(including a 13.8bhp dyno run!!), sold to a mate, who sold it to another mate, then another.

It was like a pool bike, whoever needed a hack to run to work seemed to buy it and run round until another mate needed it more.

I maintained it(a bit), and once decided to have the camcover off to check internals.

To my surprise, the chinese had improved the Honda design.

The original had the usual cam that ran in the head, eventually eating the ally away, and thats the end of that.

The cheap ass bag 'o' poo Jialing had a hardened steel insert, and a roller bearing in its place!!!

I loved that bike, it never let me down, and I dont remember it ever actually using any petrol.

So a bolt has come loose on your chinese bike, so what, fix it, ya recon bolts never came loose on jap bikes? Its a bike, China and korea could well soon become the new Japan, who the heck are we gonna slag off then? Most Suzuki engines are now assembled in korea, I dunno about the rest of them, so there ya go, my 20 cents worth. Enjoy the bike, no reason not to.

Rolla

 

Had a Superbyke SBS125 for two years. No bother at all

[Guest]

Hi Chris

Sounds like your discs are warped and you may have other problems as well. I would recommend you take it to a engineer if you are not too sure how to fix. It's your brakes... They are pretty important!!

if you tightened them working clockwise or anti clockwise in order you would have a prblem, same as you don'e undo or tighten head bolts going left to right.

take the wheel off and undo the bolts, retighten going in opposites, like a clock, 12, 6, 9, 3, NOT 12, 3, 6, 9..

then refit the wheel, and brakes and spin the wheel, you may want to use locktite on the threads, to stop them coming loose in future. if its still sticking, make a chalk mark, and try a few more times, if its the same place then your disc is warped, a good indication of this is discoloration or heavy rust, as the finish burns and changes the properties of the steel to mild steel,

i've had bad suzuki,s generally through bad previous owners. a bike is only as good as its maintainer.